I have a pair of AQ. Earth interconnects with DBS and XLR termination. All I can say is these cables sound pretty darn good in my system although I can't attest it to the XLR termination. I tried a comparison a few years back with Purist Audio Museaus, both XLR and RCA terminated. one pair each. My CD player/DAC had connections for both so I could rapidly switch between the two to listen to the same cut. I really couldn't tell any difference between the two. Maybe my system just wasn't up to task. I could see where some would think the XLR would sound better because in my comparison, the XLR connection was a tiny bit louder than the RCA connection. To people who are not aware of this, the XLR could be perceived as the better sounding cable. being a bit louder could be heard as "more resolution." But we all know that wouldn't be the case...
